Tie clasp



. H'.-L,IDORFMAN AND M. .GRossn/IAN.

TIE' cLAsP.

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APELICATION FILED JULY 28,1921.'y

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BRKLY, NEW YORK.

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Application led July l28, 1921. Serial No. item87.`

To all whom it may concer/1i:

Be it known that ive, l-liiniisn L. Doniiii'iii and Mouais Grossman, citizens of the VUnited `States, and residents ot the city oit lleiv York., borough ot Manhattan, in the county and State oi'f New York, have invent ed a new and improved lTieClalsp, oit which the following is a description.

Our invention relatesv to tie clasp and ainis to provide certain new and useful iinprovenients, i

lt is Well'appreciated that any number of l different types ot tie clasps have been provided, which have `engaged the tie and a shirt of the wearer so `as to retain the former properly applied with respect to the latter. lfill ot these devices have been somewhat objectionable in appearance in that even although they care by a jeweler, an articleot this nature inoie or less unsightly in that the saine detractsfrom` the appeaaiice ot' the wearer. j lilith this in inind our present invention aiins to provide a tie clasp, which will serve to etlectually retain the tie properly ap-` plied with respect to the shirt, vvhich clasp will, however, be entirely invisible so that the objections heretofore enuineratedivill be overcome. l t :Further object of our invention is the construction ot a device of the cha-'actor stated which shall be capable of manufacture at a nominal figure and `Which shall j be extremely simple in construction.

lluither objects of our invention will ap pear in the annexed specification, taken in connection with the drawings, which latter present one practical embodiment ot the inig'cntion, and in which j i l Figurel is a rear vievv `ot a tie andshovv ing a clasp ot our improved construction associated therewith;

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional plan vieuT taken along the lines 2-2 of Fig ure 3; i i f j i Figure 3 is a sectional side view taken along the lines 3--3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4l is a perspective view ot the clasp; and

lfigures 5 and 6 are sideand edge views, respectively,` ot a slightly diil'erent Jr'orin of clasp.

The essence olf our invention consists in were constructed ivith great providing a clasp Which shall engage f the rear face of the Aforward scart portion oit a tie as Well as the second scart portion thereo't and shall retain these partsappliedivith respect to the shirt, thus rendering the clasp invisible. l

.JL practical embodiment oit a clasp of this nature is illustrated in Figures l, to 4l and it will. be seen, i'eteir'rig" to the last-nained ligure, that the saine preferably includes a body torined of a single piece oli material such as Wire, 1which body presents a pair ot lll-shaped portions 10, Which have their iuner arins extending and bent downwardly as at" 1l to provide a resilient tongue, the outer arm oit one of the lishaped portions being bent to forni a pin 12, the second ot the saine carrying a guard 13. l y

Thus, as in Figure l., the pin i2 may pierce the rear :tace oi? the Aorvvard scart 'llioit the tie, it being obvious that the device ivill notY be apparent to an observer standing in front ot the said tie. Also, the device will not in teri'ei'eivith the tying' of the knot 115.

However, when the device is in this position, it will he obvious that as in Figure 2, the rear scart i6 may he engaged by the tongue 1l of the appliance and lie between the saine and the lJ-shaped portions l therun oi, anil also, this tongue niay subsequently he inserted to engage the rear tace ot the shirt 17 thus retaining the Whole in applied position.

ifinother practical embodiment oiour inf vention isillustrated in Figures and t3 in which a plate llis provided, which plate is formed ivith an integral resilient tongue 19, the plate also being 'ornied vvith loops 2U capable of engaging and retaining a safety pin 2l. rlliis device will operate in the saine manner as the device illustrated iii Figures l to 4t in that the body of the plateli cor-v ient tongue associated with said body, and a pin also associated with said body at a point substantially intermediate the ends of Said body said pin extending` transversely to the vlength of said body.

`2. A tie clasp including a body bent to provide a pair of U-shaped portions, inner arms of said U-shaped portions being eX- tended to provide a tongue, one of the outer arms of said U--shaped portions being efr-- l. A tie clasp, including a body, a resiltended to provide a )in and a rua-rd xed to the outerarm of tbe second U-sbaped por 

